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let us en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

  1. (form-of, formal) Formal form of let's.
    form of let's
    • “Speak no more on’t,” she said; “and now let us part, our conversation may attract more notice than is convenient for either of us.” 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Abbot. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 29:
    • Let us support the good people in what my father always called “the old country.” 2024 October 20, Susanne Sklar, “Supporting Ukraine”, in Centre Daily Times, volume 136, number 91, State College, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Letters to the Editor” section, page 9A, column 6:
    • Let us pray for the whole episcopate or company of bishops under heaven. 1855, Joseph Bingham, The antiquities of the Christian church, page 219:
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, us.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
letting us Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lets us Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
let us Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
let us Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

let us go · let us see